Nature Notes
Fun info sheets and puzzles on animals and plants of the NT.
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Amphibians |
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Birds Birds are warm-blooded, egg-laying animals with a backbone. They have a body covered with feathers, two wings, two feet and a beak. They can usually fly. |
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Fish Fish are cold-blooded animals with a backbone that live and breathe underwater. Fish typically have scales, gills, fins, and a streamlined body. |
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Foreign Invaders Foreign invaders are introduced animals or plants that have established in the wild in Australia. They have the potential to alter nature and thereby cause harm to native animals and plants. |
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Invertebrates Invertebrates are all those animals that do not have a backbone. The most common group is the insects but also includes things like spiders, worms and shellfish. |
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Mammals Mammals are animals which have a backbone and whose well-developed brain is protected by a skull. They have a four chambered heart that pumps warm blood around the body. All have hair (fur) and four limbs which may be adapted for swimming or flying. They start life inside their mums, are born live (except the worlds three egg laying monotreme mammals), and drink milk from their mothers' bodies. |
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Plants Plants are living things that cannot move by themselves. They include familiar things such as trees, flowers, herbs, ferns and mosses. They usually contain chlorophyll and can photosynthesise. |
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Reptiles Reptiles are any air breathing, dry, scaly skinned animal with a backbone that depends on their surroundings for warmth (often called ‘cold blooded’). Most lay eggs and their young are usually born on land and look like mini-versions of their parents. They breathe through lungs. |
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Threatened Species |
